panorama views

netvista

i've taking a few digital pics of mountains a while ago and i'm wondering if there's a way to fit them together for a panoramic view using my pc. i have photo studio 5.5 but can't seem to find a way to do it. any help on the matter would appreciated espically on how to do it as i've never tried it before. thanking u in advance.

andy1249

Your looking for this kind of thing ,

http://www.ptgui.com/info/photo_stitching.html

There are lots of these so dont get hung up on this one , there may even be some free ones out there , if your camera is a canon , canon do a free version with their cameras , thats what I use.

Its called Photostitching by the way.

bp_me

http://cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

I like this one. Beware though, it is very processor intensive.

Fenster

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

I've used Hugin for all but one of my panoramas and I've absolutely no complaints with it.

bp_me

Fenster wrote:

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

I've used Hugin for all but one of my panoramas and I've absolutely no complaints with it.

The benefit of autostitch is you load up your images and it does everything with no intervention. For example (7 images):

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/36393000/

Fenster

On the flipside, you get much more manual control and I've had less hassle with Hugin than Autostitch with my World of Warcraft shots. Autostitch just seemed to keel over and start drooling softly when I put computer game shots into meh.

Meh, to each their own tool

kjt

Lovely shot bp, I really like the way the grass is. Quite dreamy.
Here's one I just did quickly.

bp_me

kjt wrote:

Lovely shot bp, I really like the way the grass is. Quite dreamy.
Here's one I just did quickly.

Thanks....I just liked the colours...

anyway..on topic....with autostitch at least, you do need to load it up in photoshop or whatever you use afterwards and crop away the black around the border and do your usual adjustments.

netvista

ÿa andy it's a canon i took them with . does photostitching software come with the cameras or do u have to downöoad it from the canon site

andy1249

You should have gotten it with the camera , check your CD's if you have em and see if its there ,
Here is a link to the canon page with photostitch software , it lists all the cameras that it comes with , and as far as I can see its pretty much all of them ,
This page is just an update I think , but if you install a serial number ( camera serial number ) I think you can get the full thing ,

http://software.canon-europe.com/software/photostitch_updater_ens23752.asp?model=

netvista

thanks andy just found it now.